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House a long and eager debate ensued as to the mention which their
address should contain concerning this clause of the message. The
democratic societies found no friends who dared to come forward and
openly name and defend them. The opposition leaders could not make
up their minds to this. Yet the vague and general language which
had been used made a covert defence possible. The Federalists
sought to make it a battle for and against the democratic clubs;
the opposition strove to make it a contest concerning the general
right of the people to form voluntary associations, and to discuss
the measures of an administration. It may be fairly considered that
the result was a drawn battle. But one important fact at least was
made clear, and that was that the democratic societies could find
no one among their supposed political friends who was willing to
advocate them without disguise. The discredit which was thus
brought upon them was happily aided by the overthrow of the Jacobin
club itself, at Paris, which opportunely occurred about this time.
Thus, after having been the cause of much trouble and yet having
actually accomplished nothing, this longest- lived fruit of the
labors of Genet in the United States withered away and fell out of
sight, within about eighteen mouths after the close of his mission.
chapter{Section 4CHAPTER IV. THE WHISKEY INSURRECTION. In that
first and famous report upon the public credit which Hamilton made
to Congress in January, 1790, he recommended the laying of duties
upon spirits of domestic manufacture, and upon stills. So many
other and more immediately interesting topics were discussed in
this report, that the proposition for the establishment of an
excise tax attracted comparatively small attention. When, however,
it was touched upon in the...